Ulf Zackariasson

Ulf Zackariasson

 

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Department of Religion, Philosophy and History

Associate professor of philosophy

 

(+47)38141686

ulf.zackariasson@uia.no

Degrees

Bachelor of Arts, Uppsala University, 1995

Master of Arts, Uppsala University, 1996

Ph. D. in Philosophy of Religion, Uppsala University, 2002

Areas of interest:

Pragmatism, Philosophy of religion, Political Philosophy

Current research:

Pragmatic philosophy of religion, Religion and views of life in public deliberation.

Books, articles, reviews and

other contributions

to philosophical and public debate

Book

Forces by Which We Live: Religion and Religious Experience from the Perspective of a Pragmatic Philosophical Anthropology Studia Philosophiae Religionis 21. (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell

International, 2002) Review available at: Contemporary Pragmatism 1, 2004, 178-184 (written by Sami Pihlström).

 

Articles

“A Critique of Foundationalist Conceptions of Comprehensive Doctrines in the Religion in Politics-Debate” accepted for publication in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

“Pragmatism on Religion and Science,” Springer Encyclopaedia of Science and Religion (To be published in January 2010).

“Public Deliberation as Separate or Embedded: Deweyan Democracy and Its Relation to Political Liberalism” Minerva: Internet Journal for Philosophy (2007), 1-29. Full text available at:

http://www.mic.ul.ie/stephen/vol11/index.html

“Pragmatism without ‘Pragmatism’? A Reply to Talisse,” accepted for publication in Philosophical Writings.

“A Problem with Alston’s Indirect Analogy-Argument from Religious Experience,” Religious Studies 42 (2006), 329-341.

”När religion blir politisk: en kritik av den filosofiska debatten” i Johan Modée/Hugo Strandberg (red.), Frihet och gränser: filosofiska perspektiv på religionsfrihet och tolerans (Stockholm/Stehag: Symposion/Brutus Östling, 2006), 181-196.

“Att filosofera om religion: mot en fördjupad debatt kring filosofiska religionsförståelser,” Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift 82 (2006), 49-59.

 

Conference Papers and Popular Science

”Pragmatic Conceptions of Religion and the Adequacy Debate” (presented at Nordic Network for Pragmatism - Conference in Helsinki, June 2008)

”Mening i livet,” Fædrelandsvennen, April 2008

”Holbergprisvinneren Ronald Dworkin” (lecture at Agder Vitenskapsakademi Dec. 3, 2007).

”Änglar, finns dom?” (Colloqium, Kristiansands filosofikafé Oct. 30, 2007).

”Spenning mellom tro og fornuft,” Fædrelandsvennen September 2006.

“Religion, Metaphysics, and the Question of Adequacy” (Presented at the European Society for Philosophy of Religion-conference Religion After Metaphysics in Tübingen September 2006).

”En reaktion på människans livsvillkor: ett pragmatiskt sätt att förstå religiöst engagemang” i Det som djupast angår… Tro och identitet: förankring och förändring Föreningen Lärare i Religionskunskaps årsbok (2005), 59-68.

”Religious Belief in Public Debate and Deliberation: Towards a Pluralistic Model” (Conference paper at the Society for Applied Philosophy-conference “Public Trust and Private Interest,” Manchester, May 2004).

“Views of Life and Political Participation” (Paper presented at the Social Values Research Centre, University of Hull, November 2003).

“Argument för och emot Guds existens” i Unga filosofer: Antologi för gymnasieskolan (Stockholm: Natur & Kultur, 2002)

”I Guds namn” i Svensk kyrkotidning 33/34 2002, 380-384.

 

 

Reviews

”Nya perspektiv på interreligiös dialog,” Svensk kyrkotidning 1-2 (2006), 12-13.

”Review of Peter Ochs: Peirce, Pragmatism and the Logic of Scripture, Ars Disputandi 7 (2007) Available at:

http://www.arsdisputandi.org/

 

 

Memberships

Member of Nordic Network for Pragmatism and European Society for Philosophy of Religion.

Publisert av Janne Elisabeth Frøysaa <janne.froysaaSPAMFILTER@hia.no> 21.04.2008
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